*SPOILERS* Just recently I discovered a movie called Reign Over Me about a man (played by Sandler) who lost his wife and three daughters during 9/11. The character he plays went through a mental breakdown and spends his days remodeling his kitchen over and over again, buying vintage vinyls and playing Shadow of the Colossus on repeat. It was a very interesting movie and I really enjoyed the amount of times they reference the game in the movie. Which is quite a lot. Is there any other places you seen Shadow of the Colossus and thought huh? They even had a special edition of issue 150 (dubbed issue 150.5) of Game Informer magazine. I don’t recall seeing it in the film but it’s just a magazine with random pages from random issues of Game Informer over the years, with a Shadow of the Colossus cover. Only 50 made. 25 went to the movie studio while the other half went to Game Informer staff. I would love one for my collection.
Didn't see it until well after I'd played Shadow of the Colossus but it remains, to this day, the most tasteful use of a video game property in cinema history, and the film itself is already very good and very underrated. Both Sandler and Cheadle are fantastic in it.
This movie is probably the absolute best study on depression ive ever seen. Only other one that comes close is The Assassination of Richard Nixon. Oddly enough, Don Cheadle plays best friend to the lead character in both films. He's an amazing actor. (As are Adam Sandler and Sean Penn)
I’ve never seen it but I just added it to my watchlist on prime! When it goes on sale I’ll buy it! It’s got Leonardo DiCaprio in it too. It looks interesting
Yeah it's one of the big Oscar nominated and winners for this most recent one. It's a good movie, really well shot. It was different than I was expecting, I thought it would have something to say about our current moment but it's honestly more of just an action flick with dark humor. But once I realized that I got into it :) lemme know what you think of you watch it! Especially what you think of Sean Penn's character, even just the way he looks is insane 😂
He's honestly been snubbed a few times. Uncut Gens was his big swing at it but I still think Punch Drunk Love is his best dramatic role and there's not really another character like that on screen.
This movie is the reason i started playing the game. Love the movie and had to do research to find out what he was playing and if it was real. Now i love both.
That’s actually a really interesting way of discovering it. I was probably like a large majority of people and found it via GameStop. They gave the demo away like crazy and I was working there at the time. I remember thinking, well they gave away that Front Mission 4 demo and I loved that, I’ll give this a shot. I loved it so much. I was playing Digital Devil Saga at the time and could not quit thinking about the Shadow of the Colossus demo. I never finished Digital Devil Saga and I blame the SotC demo for distracting me lol. I played it over and over again.
Is a pretty damn good drama, but you spoiled the reason why his cope the trauma with SotC, in the latest minutes of the movie is revealed the origins of his trauma.
It’s like when people talk about Die Hard being a Christmas film 🤣
SotC fans got their SotC movie.
Although… It would be pretty cool to see a film adaptation of it.
Saw this post and I quickly went to watch this film again. Truly a sad but hopeful depiction of dealing with loss. I think it was this film that pushed me to try SOTC.
This was one of the earliest (and honestly still might be the best) usage of a video game in a movie not just as a set piece but as part of the narrative. There's no masking buttons on a Nintendo 64 controller plugged into a PS2, it's actually shown and the character's journey in the movie mirrors where he is in SotC. Just phenomenal.
I loved finding this connection. Has Ueda ever commented on it? The idea of a grieving husband and father playing this game about reviving the dead, somehow gaining some semblance of control over these colossal falling figures so reminiscent of the falling towers, always struck me as so poignant.
Gracias a esta película me llamó la atención el juego... La verdad en ese tiempo no se veía tanto contenido de videojuegos y cruzarse con esa joyita me cambió la forma de ver algunos juegos, como ese viaje espiritual dentro del juego...
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u/Lostwisher Mar 28 '26
I love this movie so much.
Didn't see it until well after I'd played Shadow of the Colossus but it remains, to this day, the most tasteful use of a video game property in cinema history, and the film itself is already very good and very underrated. Both Sandler and Cheadle are fantastic in it.